• Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This reminds me of my giant turd analogy.

    Basically, there is this giant turd, its enormous, biggest thing you’ve ever seen Everyone is fighting and climbing over each other to touch thia turd. The more of your body that touches the turd the more you own.

    At the bottom, people are barely getting a tip of their finger through the crowds to touch the turd, some cant touch it at all. They are poor or homeless.

    As you move up the turd there are people with a whole hand on the turd, they are coping, they get by, pretty average amount of turd to be touching.

    Some people have two hands on the turd and they do pretty well, quite well off.

    Then theres those who are whole bodies in the turd, they are rolling in it, they have some put away that others can’t touch. They are set for life.

    But then, you look up, and its jeff bezos, elon musk et al. Sitting on the rim of a giant toilet seat in the sky all taking a massive dump…

    Its a shit analogy but its accurate.

    I guess it would be more concise to say the mega rich are eating chicken whilst the rest of us fight for the scraps that fall off the table.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Horse and sparrow economics is what they used to call trickle down. The more I learn about “economics,” the more it looks like they are just lying to themselves ever since Keynes, so they can continue to be horrible people until we slap the shit out of them, and make them change.